Lifecycle
End of support, end of servicing, retirements, and moves to extended support from Microsoft's public lifecycle pages for 2026 and 2027.
38End of support · next 12 months7End of servicing · next 12 months41Retirement · next 12 months13Moves to extended support · next 12 months
Coming up · next 12 months
99 milestones- September 2026 · 11
- 30 Sep Azure API for FHIR Retirement
- 30 Sep Azure API for FHIR Gen 1 offering Retirement
- 30 Sep Azure Container Registry ACR 2017-03-01-(GA) API Retirement
- 30 Sep Azure FXT Edge Filer Retirement
- 30 Sep Azure Maps Web SDK v2 Subversion (v2.0~v2.0.32) and Service Module Retirement Retirement
- 30 Sep Azure Virtual Desktop (Classic) Retirement
- 30 Sep Container Log V1 Retirement
- 30 Sep Get AlertSummary API Retirement
- 30 Sep Service Bus Control plane APIS v2014-09; v2015-08; v2016-07 Retirement
- 30 Sep Single URL Ping Test in Application Insights Retirement
- 30 Sep Track 0 and 1 Service Bus SDKs and SBMP protocol Retirement
- October 2026 · 38
- 1 Oct Azure Anomaly Detector Retirement
- 1 Oct Azure Metrics Advisor Retirement
- 1 Oct Azure Personalizer Retirement
- 1 Oct Personalizer Retirement
- 1 Oct Translator Billing Model Retirement
- 13 Oct Access 2021 Retirement
- 13 Oct Access LTSC 2021 End of support
- 13 Oct Dynamics 365 Business Central on-premises (Modern Policy), 2025 release wave 1, version 26.x End of servicing
- 13 Oct Excel 2021 Retirement
- 13 Oct Excel LTSC 2021 End of support
- 13 Oct Office 2021 Retirement
- 13 Oct Office LTSC 2021 End of support
- 13 Oct Office LTSC 2021 for Mac End of support
- 13 Oct Office LTSC 2021 for Mac Moves to extended support
- 13 Oct OneNote 2021 Retirement
- 13 Oct OneNote LTSC 2021 End of support
- 13 Oct Outlook 2021 Retirement
- 13 Oct Outlook LTSC 2021 End of support
- 13 Oct PowerPoint 2021 Retirement
- 13 Oct PowerPoint LTSC 2021 End of support
- 13 Oct Project 2021 Retirement
- 13 Oct Project 2021 (LTSC) End of support
- 13 Oct Publisher 2021 Retirement
- 13 Oct Publisher LTSC 2021 End of support
- 13 Oct Skype for Business LTSC 2021 End of support
- 13 Oct Visio 2021 Retirement
- 13 Oct Visio LTSC 2021 End of support
- 13 Oct Windows 10 2016 LTSB End of support
- 13 Oct Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSB 2016 End of support
- 13 Oct Windows 11 Home and Pro, Version 24H2 End of servicing
- 13 Oct Windows Server 2012 R2, Extended Security Update Year 3 End of support
- 13 Oct Windows Server 2012, Extended Security Update Year 3 End of support
- 13 Oct Windows Server 2022 Moves to extended support
- 13 Oct Windows Server 2022 Datacenter: Azure Edition Moves to extended support
- 13 Oct Windows Server 2022 Standard (MSL) Moves to extended support
- 13 Oct Windows Server IoT 2022 Moves to extended support
- 13 Oct Word 2021 Retirement
- 13 Oct Word LTSC 2021 End of support
- November 2026 · 6
- 10 Nov .NET 8 (LTS) End of servicing
- 10 Nov Azure Functions In-process model end of support Retirement
- 10 Nov Azure IoT Edge, Version 1.5 (LTS) End of servicing
- 10 Nov PowerShell, PowerShell 7.4 (LTS) End of servicing
- 10 Nov Windows 11 Enterprise and Education, Version 23H2 End of servicing
- 10 Nov Windows 11 IoT Enterprise, Version 23H2 End of servicing
- January 2027 · 24
- 11 Jan BizTalk Server 2016 End of support
- 11 Jan Dynamics NAV 2017 End of support
- 11 Jan Microsoft Host Integration Server 2016 End of support
- 11 Jan System Center 2016 Data Protection End of support
- 11 Jan System Center 2016 Operations Manager End of support
- 11 Jan System Center 2016 Orchestrator End of support
- 11 Jan System Center 2016 Service Manager End of support
- 11 Jan System Center 2016 Virtual Machine Manager End of support
- 11 Jan Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2017 End of support
- 12 Jan Dynamics 365 for Customer Engagement Apps, version 9.x (on-premises update) Moves to extended support
- 12 Jan HPC Pack 2016 End of support
- 12 Jan HPC Pack 2016 Retirement
- 12 Jan Hyper-V Server 2016 End of support
- 12 Jan Internet Information Services (IIS), IIS 10 on Windows Server 2016 End of support
- 12 Jan Microsoft .NET Framework, .NET Framework 4.6.2 End of support
- 12 Jan Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (LTSB - version 1606) End of support
- 12 Jan Visual Studio 2022 Moves to extended support
- 12 Jan Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021 End of support
- 12 Jan Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2021 Moves to extended support
- 12 Jan Windows Azure Pack (on Windows Server 2016) End of support
- 12 Jan Windows Defender for Windows Server 2016 End of support
- 12 Jan Windows Server 2016 End of support
- 12 Jan Windows Server Update Services for Windows Server 2016 End of support
- 12 Jan Windows Storage Server 2016 End of support
- March 2027 · 12
- 15 Mar Azure AI Content Moderator Retirement
- 15 Mar Windows Server 2022 on AKS Retirement
- 31 Mar Application Gateway WAF v2 Config Retirement
- 31 Mar Azure AI Content Moderator Retirement
- 31 Mar Azure Data Factory Memory Optimized Data Flows Retirement
- 31 Mar Azure Front Door (classic) SKU Retirement
- 31 Mar Azure text to speech long audio API Retirement
- 31 Mar Built-in Analytics: Azure API Management Retirement
- 31 Mar Standard_M192idms_v2 VMs Retirement
- 31 Mar Standard_M192ids_v2 VMs Retirement
- 31 Mar Standard_M192ims_v2 VMs Retirement
- 31 Mar Standard_M192is_v2 VMs Retirement
- April 2027 · 6
- 13 Apr System Center 2022 Data Protection Manager Moves to extended support
- 13 Apr System Center 2022 Operations Manager Moves to extended support
- 13 Apr System Center 2022 Orchestrator Moves to extended support
- 13 Apr System Center 2022 Service Manager Moves to extended support
- 13 Apr System Center 2022 Virtual Machine Manager Moves to extended support
- 13 Apr Visual Studio 2017 End of support
- July 2027 · 1
- 12 Jul SQL Server 2014, Extended Security Updates Year 3 End of support
- September 2027 · 1
- 3 Sep Microsoft Teams Displays Retirement
Already passed this year
59- September 2026 · 13
- 21 Sep SMART on FHIR Proxy in Azure Health Data Services Retirement
- 19 Sep Azure Maps Web SDK Map Controls Version 1.xx Retirement
- 17 Sep Azure Maps Render V1 Retirement
- 15 Sep Activity logs legacy connector, storage integration API Retirement
- 15 Sep Azure Maps Gen1 Price Tier Retirement
- 14 Sep Azure Functions 1.0 Deprecation Retirement
- 14 Sep Azure Monitor Data Collector API Retirement
- 14 Sep Monitoring Support for AKS-Engine Retirement
- 13 Sep Computer Vision API v1.0 Retirement
- 13 Sep Computer Vision API v2.0 Retirement
- 13 Sep Computer Vision API v2.1 Retirement
- 13 Sep Computer Vision API v3.0 Retirement
- 13 Sep Computer Vision API v3.1 Retirement
- August 2026 · 2
- 31 Aug Azure AI Document Intelligence (formerly known as Azure Form Recognizer) v2.0 API Retirement
- 31 Aug Azure document Intelligence v2.1 Container Retirement
- July 2026 · 11
- 14 Jul Dynamics GP 2016 End of support
- 14 Jul Dynamics GP 2016 R2 End of support
- 14 Jul Infopath 2013 End of support
- 14 Jul Project Server 2016 End of support
- 14 Jul Project Server 2019 End of support
- 14 Jul SharePoint Designer 2013 End of support
- 14 Jul SharePoint Server 2016 End of support
- 14 Jul SharePoint Server 2019 End of support
- 14 Jul SQL Server 2014, Extended Security Updates Year 2 End of support
- 14 Jul SQL Server 2016 End of support
- 14 Jul Visual Studio 2022 , Version 17.12 (LTSC channel) End of support
- June 2026 · 1
- 6 Jun Microsoft Configuration Manager, Version 2409 End of servicing
- May 2026 · 1
- 12 May .NET 9 End of servicing
- April 2026 · 13
- 30 Apr Custom Commands Retirement
- 28 Apr Azure Application Gateway v1 Retirement
- 14 Apr Dynamics C5 2016 End of support
- 14 Apr Dynamics NAV 2016 End of support
- 14 Apr Microsoft Advanced Group Policy Management 4.0 End of support
- 14 Apr Microsoft Application Virtualization 5.0 End of support
- 14 Apr Microsoft Application Virtualization 5.1 End of support
- 14 Apr Microsoft Application Virtualization Hosting 5.0 for Windows Desktops End of support
- 14 Apr Microsoft Application Virtualization Hosting 5.1 for Windows Desktops End of support
- 14 Apr Microsoft BitLocker Administration and Monitoring 2.5 End of support
- 14 Apr Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset 10.0 End of support
- 14 Apr User Experience Virtualization (UE-V) 2.1 End of support
- 4 Apr Dynamics 365 Business Central on-premises (Modern Policy), 2024 release wave 2, version 25.x End of servicing
- March 2026 · 15
- 31 Mar API Keys for querying Application Insights Retirement
- 31 Mar Batch Region Retirement Retirement
- 31 Mar Classic alerts for Azure Backup Retirement
- 31 Mar Classic Compute Node Communication Model Retirement
- 31 Mar Deprecation of flash-extract custom fields Retirement
- 31 Mar Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Parallel Data Warehouse (Analytics Platform System) End of support
- 31 Mar Retire Require Approve Client App Conditional Access Grant Retirement
- 31 Mar VHD and Managed Images Retirement
- 31 Mar Windows Server 2019 on AKS hybrid Retirement
- 31 Mar Windows Server 2019 on AKS Retirement Retirement
- 29 Mar Classic VMware protection scenario using ASR Retirement
- 16 Mar AzureML Batch Endpoints API Preview retirement Retirement
- 15 Mar DMS (classic) – SQL Scenarios only retirement Retirement
- 15 Mar Feature deprecation: Trigger playbooks on alerts by analytics rule Retirement
- 13 Mar Speech to Text API v3.0 API Retirement Retirement
- January 2026 · 3
- 13 Jan Advanced Threat Analytics 1.X End of support
- 13 Jan Dynamics CRM 2016 (Dynamics 365) End of support
- 13 Jan Visual Studio 2022 , Version 17.10 (LTSC channel) End of support
Announced retirements and deprecations
18 from Azure Updates, the Windows message center, the roadmap, and Microsoft blogs- 1 Sep2026 Retirement: Nested confidential (cc_v5) VMs will be retired on September 1, 2026
- 14 Oct2026 Retirement Update: SAP container images removed October 14, 2026
- 10 Nov2026 Retirement: Support for PowerShell 7.4 ends on November 10, 2026
- 10 Nov2026 Retirement: Support for .NET 8 and .NET 9 ends on November 10, 2026—upgrade your apps to .NET 10
- 30 Apr2027 Retirement: Support for Node.js 22 ends on April 30, 2027
- 30 Apr2027 Retirement: Support for Node 22 LTS ends on April 30, 2027
- 30 Aug2027 Retirement: Azure VMware Solution License-included service will be retired August 30, 2027
- 30 Sep2028 Retirement: Azure Communication Services (ACS) standalone services will be retired on September 30, 2028
- No date Windows Deployment Services (WDS) deprecation in the next Windows Server release
- No date Introducing EWSAllowedAppIDs: Preparing for the Final Phase of EWS Retirement
- No date One month until Office LTSC 2021 end of support
- No date Retirement: Azure Linux with OS Guard in Azure Kubernetes Service
- No date Retiring NTLM: Frequently asked questions
- No date Prepare for the removal of WMIC from Windows 11
- No date Help us shape Exchange Server on-premises to different online org Free/Busy after EWS retirement
- No date Upcoming retirement of OWA Light in Exchange Server
- No date Retirement: Containerized data connector agent for the Microsoft Sentinel solution for SAP applications
- No date Plan for Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021 end of support